I got an unexpected, but great phone call during my one-night stand on Saturday with Brent. On the other end of the phone was Ali, a former colleague. We worked together at The Blade newspaper last summer while she was there as an intern during her summer break from college. We had fun during the three plus months she was in Toledo, playing board games, tennis, and going out to dinner.
As luck would have it, she told me on the phone that she was on her way overseas and had a day-long layover at a New York City airport. But rather than be stuck in the airport all day, she asked if I was free to hang out. I of course said YES! I FINALLY had a friend look me up the next time he or she was in New York! Yay!
So we met up at the subway station near my place late Sunday morning and walked uptown to Europan to eat brunch and catch up on each other's lives.
Afterward, we spent the next FIVE hours walking from around 64th Street to Soho, which is more than two miles, and stopping in tons of shoe stores, Old Navy, and interesting shops along the way. We were ultimately headed to Muji - an IKEA-like store that opened its first U.S. store in November.
Though they had great stuff there - lots of plain white, but beautiful dishes, teapots, and other housewears along with office supplies, pillows, and clothes, it was EXPENSIVE. Ali said it was probably the exchange rate that made it seem so overpriced. But she found a cute skirt and a T-shirt for both her and her mom there, so the walk was worth it.
And since she goes to Yale, she said we'll be seeing each other more often after she finishes a semester studying in Argentina - how awesome is that?! - because she often comes into the city when she wants a break from classes. Yay!
Thanks for a fun day Ali!
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